Student Awards and Achievements

Student Awards

• Two Taubman Urban Planning Capstones Win Top Honors from the Michigan Association of Planning

• Six Taubman Students Named Dow Sustainability Fellows

• Taubman Students, Faculty, Staff Honored with MLK Spirit Awards

• "Bridging the Border" Capstone Earns Top MAP Honors

• Urban Planning Student Association Honored by American Planning Association

• Four Taubman College Students Named Dow Sustainability Fellows

• Agora wins 2018 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals

• Pimentel Walker, Arquero de Alarcon Brazil Capstone & Studio Wins Planning Award

• Masters of Urban Planning Capstone Wins 2018 AICP Student Project Award

• The Student-led project “Ocupação Anchieta Avança! Ocupação Anchieta Forward! Received First-Place Award of $35,000 in the 2017 Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability

Additional Urban and Regional Planning News

• M.U.R.P. Students Embrace Expanded Personal and Professional Horizons

• Study by Long and Urban Planning Students Assesses Urban Development Impacts of the Olympics

• Hoey Discusses Food Insecurity on WJR’s “Food First Michigan”

• Larsen Discusses Electrical Grid Resistance and Climate Change on WDET

• Dewar Co-Authors Study on Property Tax Relief and Foreclosure Prevention in Detroit

• Fall 2019 Portico: The Airport Planning Bug Comes Full Circle for Chris Johnson, B.S. ’09, M.U.P. ’15, at Passero Associates

• Fall 2019 Portico: NACTO's Corinne Kisner, M.U.P. ’13, Thinks Crosswalks, Bikes, and Social Justice

• Levine and Grengs Co-Author New Book on Urban Transportation

• Three Taubman College Faculty Join Larsen on Carbon Neutrality Commission

• Larsen Named Associate Editor for Urban Sustainability Journal

• U-M Taubman College Ranks among Top 10 Urban and Regional Planning Programs in the U.S.; No. 1 in Midwest

• IN THE NEWS: Samantha Farr, M.U.P. '15, Brings a "Badass" Passion to Welding

• Pimentel Walker Receives Grant to Create Migrant Model of Health Care

• Taubman College Students Gain Practical Training While Making a Difference for Communities

• Thanh Bui, M.U.P. '97, Structures Deals With a Planner’s View of Real Estate Markets

• Hoey's Research on "Zero Hunger" Published in World Development Journal

• U-M students team up to understand, aid restoration of Great Lakes environmental concerns

• Deng, Ph.D. Student Yan Publish Study of China’s Housing Provident Fund

• Taubman Students, Faculty Present at National ACSP Conference

• Students Study Water Issues at Mexican Border

• Taubman College wins in three categories in this year’s North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Awards

• Taubman College Students Propose Campuses of the Future